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Our latest double-packed giveaway is now over, and time to announce the first winners has finally arrived. Special thanks to everyone who participated in either contest, in total 288 TS members took part in the giveaway.As usual we've drawn our official winners, gathered some interesting statistics, and got ready to announce upcoming prizes for our next and last giveaway before the year is over. Enter here for the results.
First, let's take a look at statistics for our picture gallery drawing, good for winning a BenQ LED Mini Projector and Aten USB KVM:
Picture gallery contest facts...
- 255 total screens were used to show the TechSpot homepage
- 213 were computer screens between monitors and laptops
- 33 smartphones were used and another 9 shots came from various devices like PSPs, Nintendo DS, TVs and projectors
- 47 members participated -- in other words, your chances weren't too bad
- 5.42 was the average number of screens used by contestants
- The max. number of screens were shown by Basher with 24 total, closely followed by Kibaruk (20), Drasho (19) and Puiu (16)
And the winner is... ken777!
Congratulations. Your entry with 6 PC screens was randomly selected as the winner of the BenQ LED Projector and Aten USB KVM. Please respond to our announcement email, so we can get the prize sent your way asap.
Our second giveaway consisted in commenting our daily news coverage. Remember this is a random drawing for the first of three winners. The first winner will get the chance to choose from one of these prizes: (1) ATI Radeon HD 5850 + Aten USB KVM, (2) Barebones OCZ DIY netbook, (3) OCZ Sabre programmable keyboard + Aten USB KVM.
Upon receiving a response from the first random winner, we will select a second who will choose from the remaining prizes, and so on.
News comments contest facts...
- 3700+ news comments were made during the contest period (from both participants and non-participants)
- 247 members signed up for the challenge
- 9.94 was the average number of posts made by contestants
- About 15% of participants posted over 20 comments
- Almost 40% of users posted > 5 comments -- meaning we had a lot more participation this time than in our last giveaway
We really hope you enjoyed participating in the comments, joining your fellow TS readers weighing in on the latest tech happenings.
And the winner is... ET3D!
Congratulations. With a total of 63 comments posted during the contest (of which only 40 counted towards the drawing, as ruled), you were randomly selected as our first winner in this part of the giveaway.
Prize selected: ATI Radeon HD 5850 graphics card
Second winner announcement: Congratulations buttus!
Prize selected: OCZ Barebones DIY netbook
Third winner announcement: Congratulations Chazz!
Prize: OCZ Sabre programmable keyboard + Aten USB KVM
Please respond to our announcement email, so we can get the prize you want sent your way asap.
To all the members who participated... Thank you again for making TechSpot's news coverage more interesting than ever. And specially thank you for keeping the discussion down to earth. We are grateful of having you around forming part of the TechSpot community.
Our next giveaway...
We have one more giveaway planned before the 2009 is over. Here are the prizes we have lined up so far:User Comments: 84
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Well that depends
Have you just bought a brand new laptop, bit isn't exactly the same as the ones mentioned
Anyway the rules are posted at the beginning of these contests, usually being open to everyone
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Puiu said:
ET3D said:Just to let you know, if was a hard choice, since I've already bought a 5750 recently, but I did go for the 5850 eventually. Sorry. Couldn't resist getting a graphics card twice as fast as what I have.
BTW, nice prizes for the next competition. Are winners of this one disqualified from winning again?
You can always do Crossfire if you have the mb and psu.
And i also want to know if there were people who got disqualified like last time.
PS: Really good prizes for the next contest. BTW do you guys have something special planned for X-mas besides this?
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So... when are the 2nd and 3rd?? =3
I still find pretty cool the keyboard, and I do have a sodim lying over the bedroom and a 100gb 2,5" hdd =)
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Staff
Mid-week ET3D decided on the videocard, next winner will be announced very soon - sorry for the delay, have been caught up with work on articles, etc.
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Staff
Second winner announcement:
Congratulations Hyperian! Please respond to our announcement email, so we can get the prize you want sent your way asap.
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Congratulations Hyperian!
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WinXPert said:
Good for you. Make the most of it. Congrats.
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Puiu said:
Congrats Hyperian! I hope the next winner is decided soon. ^_^ The suspense is killing me.
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Congrats Hyperian!
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Congratulations to Hyperian.
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Congrats Hyperian
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Staff
Actually Hyperian has not responded yet to the giveaway notice. If we don't hear from him until tomorrow we are drawing a new second winner...
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Puiu said:Julio said:
Actually Hyperian has not responded yet to the giveaway notice. If we don't hear from him until tomorrow we are drawing a new second winner...
I noticed that he didn't visit techspot in the last 2-3 weeks. Tough luck. Maybe next time.
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Sorry he may miss out, not sorry my chances may go up :-)
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Staff
Second winner announcement (second try):
Congratulations buttus! Please respond to our announcement email, so we can get the prize you want sent your way asap.
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Holy crap. Thanks so much Julio. I can't believe I won this prize...and it might even be in time for Christmas. I really appreciate it.
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Congratulations buttus!
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What item are you going to pick?
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The OCZ Netbook. Now all I need is some ram and a hdd and I'll be good to go. It will make a great Christmas gift for the fiancee who just wants something small, thin and portible to check he emails and casually surf when out. I need a full out notebook myself as I use photoshop quite a bit.
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Staff
Thanks for the quick response buttus. We will ship the netbook barebones with RAM, but no HDD since we returned the one we used for the review.
We will be announcing our third and last winner soon.
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Congratulations Buttus! =)
Who is going to take home the keyboard? Ta ta ta taaaaaaaa!
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Congratulations, buttus.
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Puiu said:
Congrats buttus! Now let's see who wins the last prize.
BTW when is the next contest going to start? There's less than 2 weeks till the end of the year.
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Lucky lady who gets the netbook =)
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Sooo... who gets the keyboard? =)
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